Whiskey Ginger with Andrew Santino - Flula Borg
Episode Date: April 3, 2020Santino sits down with Flula Borg (Pitch Perfect, Trolls & Suicide Squad) to chat about his home grown unicorn, his dream movie idea for a Die Hard spin off and how German sausages are as big and juic...y as they are rumored to be. FLULA INSTA: https://www.instagram.com/flula/?hl=en FLULA YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTbC3hJmqKotBt4s2BGRjrA TICKETS AT http://www.andrewsantino.com/ ALL STANDUP DATES ARE CHANGING AS WE SPEAK AND GET THROUGH THIS THING. JOIN OUR PATREON!!! : https://www.patreon.com/whiskeygingerpodcast BUY SOME MERCH: https://shop-andrew-santino.myshopify.com FOLLOW CHEETO: https://www.instagram.com/cheetosantino/ FOLLOW CHEETO TWITTER: https://Twitter.com/cheetosantino FOLLOW WHISKEY GINGER ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/whiskeygingerpodcast/ FOLLOW WHISKEY GINGER ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/whiskeyginger_ SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS!!! STOP YOUR HAIR FROM FALLING OUT AND TAKE BACK CONTROL FROM THE HAIR THEIF GODS AND USE KEEPS!!! GO TO https://bit.ly/3dJX1Xw (keeps.com/whiskey) TO GET YOUR FIRST TRIAL FOR FREE!!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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In here, we pour whisk, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Whiskey Ginger.
My guest today is one of my favorite people on earth.
I say that for all my guests, but I mean it once again today.
It is Flula Borg. Flula Borg!
Hello, Andro Santino. How are you? Chito Santino.
Oh, Flula. Flula, we're speaking in quarantine times.
Thank you so much for doing this.
Yes, it's an interesting time.
It is. Have you ever lived through for doing this. Yes, it's an interesting time. It is.
Have you ever lived through anything like this? No, have you?
Yeah, I did. Oh, cheers, by
the way. Cheers, post. Oh, I have triple
beverage. I have this, and then
I also have some protein powders
with water. Okay.
And then also a caffeine. So it's a caffeine
which is the upper, and then vodka dilute
with water, which is the downer,
and the protein, which is the grower.
Do you think that's not too much liquid?
Yeah, it is.
It is too much liquid?
Yeah.
Yeah, it's a significant...
It's too much.
You're going to have to urinate in the middle of the podcast.
Yeah, but who cares?
You cannot see me.
You don't know what my pee-pee is connected to right now.
Well, that's actually true.
Do you have a device that you
urinate into when you're podcasting?
Yeah, it's a bucket.
Oh, that wasn't as advanced as I thought. For some
reason, I thought you were going to have some kind of advanced
system. No, no. I just
hit a mood button and I go.
Oh, okay.
Flula, thanks for joining me.
I'm sorry we can't be right
next to each other, but this is working enough for me.
Great. Same as me as well.
If you like, I like.
You know how it is, a transitive property.
Yeah, I totally agree.
If you like, I like.
Flula, what part of Germany are you from?
I'm from the quiet part, which is Erlangen, Germany,
which is close to Nürnberg,
which is northern Bavaria, southern Franconia.
Yeah.
I just realized we're going to have to subtitle almost all this.
This whole episode is going to have to be subtitled.
Apology.
I think you said, it's okay.
I think you said something along the lines of being near Nuremberg, where the trials were.
Okay.
Yes.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yes.
Okay.
That's the reason to remember it.
Thanks, Andrew.
I mean, that's, is it famous for anything else?
Ja, bratwürste.
For bratwurst?
Tiny sausages. We have the most tiny, tasty sausages in the world.
They are so small. They're like this.
You can just take three in your mouth immediately and they are yummy.
So do you like, you know, the little smokies, those little smoky sausages?
Do you like those or no?
No, those are not real. Those are fake.
Oh, they are?
It's highly artificial.
Ja, ja. Our Nürnbergeratwürste are tasty and crispy,
and you put them in a roll and you suck it up.
Drei im Weckler.
What was that you just said?
It was three inside of the slang for a tiny piece of bread.
Drei im Weckler.
Drei im Weckler.
Yeah, very good, yes.
Well, can I tell you a connection that we've never made before?
I took German for, I want to say, three years, four years of my life,
and I speak almost none of it.
Oh, hör auf, Andrew, das ist ja spitze. Wie geht's dir heute?
Sehr gut, wie geht's du?
Das ist ja spitze. You have remembered enough things there, Andrew.
Very nice, Mr. Santino.
Tell me if I'm wrong,
because some of the fans probably want to know this for their reference.
Ich habe eine große Schwanz.
What is that?
Hast du einen? Is this true for you?
Ja, ja.
Okay, so for the people listening,
Andrew was saying,
hello, I have a very large tail, but tail is a slang or as you say, slangs for a penis.
Right.
Can you tell me some of the other slangs for penis? What are they?
Slangs, you could say pimmel, which is P-I-M-M-E-L.
And then I would say Schlangschlang.
Schlangschlang.
That's just what I say.
It is short for snake, and then I just say it twice.
If you'd say it nice, you say it too twice, you say.
Schlangschlang?
Schlangschlang, yeah.
Schlangschlang.
And then schwanz is nice.
Is that the real word for snake?
What's the real word for snake?
What is the German word for snake?
Oh, just Schlange.
Schlange?
Schlange, yeah. Schllange it's very good you're pronouncing it i find it tasty it's pretty good right i think uh the only thing i got good grades on was my pronunciation i could never the thing
not people who don't care about this it doesn't matter but der die das german is really hard to learn because of the tenses because of uh um it's gender it's male female and neutral and i don't understand which one's
which half of the time yeah you just have to guess sometimes i just guess you guess i think
the trick andrew is just to make a mumbles like if you're not sure just like what tish
manch bear oh that's perfect so you just stumble through it and then that oh that's wonderful Like if you're not sure, just be like, Tish. Mensch. Bear.
Oh, that's perfect.
So you just stumble through it and then that,
oh, that's wonderful.
You can also sing the song,
Der, die, das.
Wer, wie, was.
Weshalb, wieso, warum.
Sei doch nicht so dumm.
Der, die, das.
Ne, die, das.
That's wonderful.
Now you know it. Wow. I've just given you all the secrets. Nedidas, k-k. That's wonderful. Now you know it.
I've just given you all the secrets.
Yeah, you taught me everything.
Yeah, and I took German because my mother said that she read an article when I was a youth that learning German at a very young age helps you develop...
There's the second drink.
It helps you develop your English
faster. Why, sis? They said it's because it's an extremely difficult language to learn.
It's for American kids to learn when they're learning English as well. And I guess it really
helps you learn the English language better because it's a difficult language to learn.
It's not that it's close by any means.
It's just it's challenging for young people to learn.
It's one of the hardest languages to learn, apparently.
Does that sound true to you?
Well, I don't know, but I can tell you this sounds like a terrible strategy.
Like if I'm giving you three balls to juggle and then I also give you like a knife.
Yeah.
And oddly enough, the German language is like a knife. It is. It's true. It is. Also stecken, drehen, rausziehen. pull twist and pull twist and pull you know say that in german say twist turn and pull in german
perfect love it thank you uh cheers to you through the camera cheers cheers to flula on all your
drinks could you hold up the third one as well yes hold on it has a it has a handle for my pinky
so oh perfect look at that cheers yeah uh so you've got dilutedost. You've got protein powder and what's the other one? Coffee?
Coffee. Yeah, yeah. Cold coffee.
Great. So I'm just having regular old whiskey Buffalo Trace, but it's okay. Do you love vodka? Is that your favorite drink?
It is clean now. I have decided, as you know, many of the peoples in our world are like, hey, let's be healthy. Let's stop eating all of the Twinkies.
Yeah. And so I was
always a whiskey man and
what is called? Oh, shucks.
Rye whiskey.
Rye, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But now I
just do with vodka and water
and that's what I do for now. We will
change it. When the quarantine is
week eight, everything will change.
Right. And then you
drink vodka straight up? No ice, huh? Yeah, just with change. Right. Yeah. And then do you drink vodka straight up?
No ice, huh?
Yeah, just with water.
Wow, you like it room temperature vodka, huh?
Yeah.
Why?
What do you like?
Most people drink vodka with ice on the rocks.
Like either...
Or cold at least in some regard.
No?
No.
No, in Germany we don't make things cold.
You just drink it. Is it liquid? Is it wet? we don't make things cold you just drink it is it
liquid is it wet has it evaporated no then drink it and suck it up is beer warm in germany as well
it is how it arrives right it is how it arrives that should be that should be a slogan for one
of the beer companies what's the most famous like hoegarden hoegarden's german right not german but
still close it is how it arrives hoegarden it is how it arrives. Hogarden, it is how it arrives.
It is how it arrives.
Yeah.
And if it arrives in a plastic bag,
you still have to drink it, right?
Hurry up and suck it.
Hurry up and suck it.
That's the second slogan.
It is how it arrives.
Hurry up and suck it.
Yeah, exactly.
Hogarden.
What is Hogarden?
If not German, what is it?
I think, well, I would tell,
yeah, as a German,
I only know my German beers.
I think it's Beldram. But who cares I think, well, I will tell, yeah, as a German, I only know my German beers. I think it's Belgium,
but who cares?
You know, it's not, it's not,
I will tell you,
we have many tiny,
everyone here has your arts and crafts,
brewerie in America.
We, every brewerie in Germany,
in the brewery, is tiny.
We are all tiny and old,
like our German hot dogs.
So what's your favorite,
what's your favorite German beer?
Kitzmann beer, rest in pieces.
It was purchased and now no longer
is existing from Erlang.
Kitzmann beer, gone. Man, that's so sad.
What is your most favorite beer?
Santino?
You know, I usually drink whiskey, but if
I'm going to have a beer, I usually have one of those
IPAs. You know what an IPA is?
IPA, IPA, Andele.
No, they don't say... That's not it.
It's just IPA. It's an acronym.
Ah, so. No.
Acronym is each of the letters stand for
another word, you know? Oh, yeah, like
LOLs and LMAFO.
Yep, LOLs and LMAFO.
Yep. Do you know what those things
stand for or no? No.
Okay. LOL
is laughing out loud.
Laughing out loud.
Yeah, like, tell me
a joke.
Now?
Yeah. Okay.
Andrew, how do you
remove a clown
from a swing?
I don't know. How?
You hit him in the head with an axe.
Lol.
Do you get it?
This sounds terrible.
I hate this. Exactly. That's why
we shouldn't use it. Don't use it at all.
Are you quarantining
alone, Flula? Are you by yourself?
Or do you have somebody else there with you? I'm alone.
I'm currently growing a friend.
It's a unicorn.
His name is Rodney. So he hatched from an egg. Wow. Yeah, I would show you a photo. I can send
you a photo to show. Send it, yeah. Yeah, he's currently growing. He is now eight centimeters
and I'm trying to teach him some hobbies. Eight centimeters. That's Rodney.
Rodney.
And why did you come up with...
Oh, sorry.
Rodney.
Rodney.
Rodney.
Rodney.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Rodney.
How did you come up with the name Rodney?
I was like having a dream about a meadow that was very dangerous.
And I thought, oh, it's a dangerous field.
Danger field.
Rodney.
Danger field.
I have a unicorn.
His name is Rodney.
Perfect.
Do you have many visions like this
that kind of
encapsulate what you're doing in your life or no?
You mean dreams?
Well, was this a dream? Did you say
it was a dream? It was a dream, yeah, yeah.
But it was a vision too, like Mariah Carey,
a vision of love. But it was mostly
a dream. It was a dream.
Do you remember all your dreams?
No. Only two per week. Do you remember all your dreams? No. Only two
per week. Do you remember?
You remember two per week? Yeah.
Can you tell me what happened so far this week?
Do you remember any this week? Yeah, well,
I had a dangerous meadow dream
which then gave me to me
Dangerfield. And then
I had one, it was an arm wrestling
contest with me and
with Joe Pesci.
But it's Joe Pesci from that film where he is a cousin of Vincent.
My cousin Vinny.
Yeah.
And so we are making a battle with the arms.
It's me and Joe.
Yeah, you have seen Over the Top, you know.
Yeah, Over the Top.
And who won?
We did not.
It was a tie.
Everyone stopped. The time stopped. and then all of a sudden,
everything was starting to get very small.
Wow.
And then I evoked it.
Like Joe Pesci.
Yeah.
Ah.
Well, that's interesting, because you're probably six foot three or four.
We have sit next to each other.
Yes, in an airplane.
I realized, I was like, oh, Andrew is tall.
And I think you tell me, yeah, everybody thinks I am short.
You know, they think I'm the Danny DeVito of comedy. Yeah, no.
That's what they call me, the Danny DeVito of comedy.
And that could be because for a long time
I had a similar shape.
I had a similar bowling pin shape as Danny.
But since now I've
used one of those back machines where you lay upside
down and my back stretched out so
the fat that was the thickness
part of the pin, it's been dispersed to my legs and my neck and my head. So it kind of evened out a little bit.
Yeah. I wanted to, like when I saw you in the airport, I was like, oh, he looks very
evened out. No, thank you. Evened out is probably the best way I can describe what's happened to me
over the years. Yeah. But yeah, so you are, yeah, we sat next to each other on an airplane, and surprisingly enough, you ate five meals.
Five of the meals that they served.
Yes.
Is that normal for you?
Yes, I ate my two meals, and then you refused your meal,
so I ate your two meals, and then we asked the flight lady for an additional meal.
Flight attendant.
Yeah.
Yeah, thank you. Yeah. Thank you.
Yeah, no problem.
We don't say flight lady anymore.
It's just an old term
that I don't think
they like anymore.
Well, if it's a man,
you say flight man.
You say flight attendant still.
It's the exact same thing.
Oh, we've removed the genitals.
Yeah, the genitals
are totally gone.
You don't do
male or female genitals anymore.
They're just robots at this point.
They're just things that exist.
Beep, bop, boop.
Thanks for the drink.
Beep, boop, boop, boop.
Yeah, you did five meals and you slept.
But this was very strange.
And tell me if this is normal for you.
You said, I'm going to take a nap.
I said, sure.
I continued reading.
And I looked over.
You were sleeping like this.
Do you sleep with your eyes open?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I close my eyes, then the demons come.
So I've realized that if I keep them open, then I wake up a little bit.
It feels dry in the eyeball, but that way you are like, have you seen Poltergeist?
Yes, I love Poltergeist.
I have not seen it.
Ah, it's because you...
Okay.
That makes perfect sense.
So you get these wonderful visions like Rodney in the field, in the meadow, because your
eyes are open.
Yeah.
That's right.
But if you close your eyes, it immediately goes to a dark, dark place.
Who knows?
Everyone dies.
Yeah.
In my dreams.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Well, that's not good.
Andrew, you asked me where's I from.
May I ask you a question?
Yeah. Where do you asked me where I'm from. May I ask you a question? Yeah.
Where are you from?
I'm from Chicago, Illinois.
Have you been to Chicago before?
I've been to this place.
Oh, yeah.
So Cubbies.
Sammy Sosa.
Sammy Sosa.
That was quite a long time ago.
But yeah.
How do you know Sammy Sosa?
Well, I was following your home runs in the years with him and Marcus McGuire and all
of this. And then also I love your Bulls so deep and hard. I love all of the Judd Bushler and,
you know, Will Perdue and all of these. Will Perdue, great. You like a lot of the big guys.
You like the big guys, huh? Bill Wennington, yes. Bison Daly. Oh, the big boys. Yes. Oh,
yeah. Bill Cartwright. That's incredible. Bill Cartwright. Who's your least favorite Chicago Bull?
Of all of the Bulls?
Yeah, who do you like the least?
Scott Williams.
Why?
I just wanted to see Scott.
He was always so happy.
I just want to see him growl like a piranha.
But he was always so nice.
I was like, stop smiling and be a rude man just one time.
But I still love him.
But you know what I mean.
Right, but he just didn't exercise what what I mean. He's the, right.
But he just didn't, he didn't exercise what you liked about, about the rest of the Bulls.
Yeah.
Who's your favorite athlete of all time, Thule?
Of all the times, Dirk Nowitzki, number 41, Dallas Mavericks, power forward.
Greatest power forward of all time.
Greatest European basketballer of all times.
These are all complete facts, huh?
And what a smile.
What a smile on that guy.
Oh, a grin for my kilometers.
Yes.
Oh, you switched a little bit there.
You were doing the American thing.
I wanted to belong to you,
but then I wanted to also stay different.
Do you know it's like in the party,
if everyone is wearing the same Reeboks,
you go home and you wear some kangaroos.
Yes, I understand.
Do you wear a lot of Reeboks?
No.
No.
Yeah, that's not really a... Are they around?
I don't know.
Can you buy Reeboks still?
I once had the Shaquille O'Neal pumps.
Oh, the pumps were so good.
I had the pumps too.
I loved the pumps, man.
What an incredible run of shoes the 90s were.
Oh, there you are.
Yeah.
Did I lose you?
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, did I lose you? Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, I lost you for eight seconds,
and I thought one of us had a stroke.
I hope not.
Do you smell bread?
No, I smell coffee and also protein
and also the offspring of the protein.
Right, so that can't be good.
How many times a day are you drinking protein?
Three times.
Three times a day.
All right.
So is this because you're trying to get in the best shape of your life?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a T-B-S-O-M-L, as they say.
It's an acronym.
T-B-S-O-M-L?
T-B-S-O-M-L.
Yeah. That's an acronym like LOL and LMFAO
and
and
CEO and FBI.
Oh, RAIDOR.
Right. Exactly.
Yeah.
So how many times a day are you working out, Flula?
One time in the day, Andrew.
And it is just for a very intensity time.
And I listen to Spotify and I, you know, go for it very deep and hard.
How often are you work out?
I've been running every day for about a minimum of five and a maximum.
I did 11 miles the other day, but that wasn't good.
I didn't feel good afterwards.
Why do you do this?
To just, I want to get out of the house. I don't like sitting around the house. I have FOMO.
There's another acronym. You know what FOMO is? FOMO. Yeah, it is. People always say no FOMO,
which I don't understand. No, no, no. That's no HOMO. And that's a comment saying I'm not,
that's like saying I say a gay joke, but I'm not gay. That's what that is. Like if I said, Flula, you have really sexy eyes, no homo. That means I like your eyes,
but I'm not gay for you. Yeah. Do you want, like you do give me a no homo. Well, just this easy
to learn. So give me a compliment that might be misconstrued as sexual, but you don't really mean it that way. Andrew, I like your posture,
no FOMO. No, that's not it. And it's no HOMO. FOMO means fear of missing out. That's an acronym.
No HOMO means like, hey, I'm not gay. I just want to give you a gay compliment. So like
Flula, when you were asleep on the plane, I noticed that your neck was very muscly and veiny, and it turned me on a little bit. No homo.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
Andrew, I have noticed that you have a positive attitude in general in life. No FOMO.
attitude in general in life? No FOMO. No. I mean, yeah, cool. Thank you. But that's not,
it's not, we'll just move forward. That doesn't matter even a little bit, but we're grasping it slowly, you know? Yeah. Thank you. Okay.
Flula, what are you working on right now? Project wise? Cause you're always doing something. I know
you went to Germany, uh, with Conan one time. I follow almost
everything you do online and you're always cooking up something. What's going on with you now?
Oh yeah, little Betty Croker here. Yeah, that's true. Sorry. Oh, what do I do? I'm now making
some more videos where I teach people some mathematics. So students are sending me homework
because they are, was that delicious? That sounds delicious. So good. Sorry. Yeah. I'm sorry. That
was so loud. It's really good. There it is. Let's hear it. I can't hear it. There it is.
That's like ASMR. Oh, yeah. Ass master.
So what are you working on? Tell me what you're cooking up. ASMR. Oh. You know what that is? Yeah, Ass Master. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
So what are you working on?
Tell me what you're cooking up.
Homework.
So basically, people are sending me their homework because schools is closed, so I'm just doing the mathematics homework.
It's probably morally questionable, but I'm just doing it anyway.
Right.
Yeah.
It's morally questionable.
Why would it be morally questionable?
It's not my homework.
Well, you don't have more homework.
You haven't been in school in quite a long time, I imagine.
It's been many hundreds of days.
Yeah.
So you're doing homework for other people on the Internet as like a charity thing?
Well, as a teacher, no one is with each other.
Everyone is separated, just like church and state.
So I'm just doing the homework for the children while
they cannot have a teacher in the face. Right. Well, that's very nice. That's generous,
to say the least. If you have some, Andrew, let me know. Right now I'm doing some geometry,
finding the volumes and areas of cubes and cones. So if you have something, send it to me,
or other children, send it to me.
I don't have homework. I don't have homework. I've been out of school for a long time. And also,
it'd be weird if I just sent you kids. Don't you think that'd be kind of odd to send kids to you?
Don't send me. Sorry about this. Please don't. Everyone, let me, so if we can take back.
Yeah. Everyone, don't send me your children, please. It's not legal,
but please send me the homework of your children,
but not your children,
just assignments,
if you like.
Is that better?
I think that should,
yeah, that should be good.
I mean,
No FOMO.
That's,
yeah,
yeah,
no FOMO is right.
Flula,
I want to ask you
something very personal.
Great.
You can say, you can plead the fifth,
you know, if you don't want to answer it.
You know, plead the fifth is right?
Yeah, plead the fifth.
Here it is.
Look at this big fifth.
No, but
what I want to,
are you in a relationship
or are you single?
Is Flula single?
Yeah, I'm currently singling
and ready for mingling,
which is another reason
why i'm excited to have created rodney so we will see what happens there we're going very slow
because i'm still growing him are you saying that you're are you going to date your unicorn is that
what you're saying i want to see how we align you know just in terms of interests and hobbies. So I don't want... Wow, okay.
Look, we are inside for many months, Andrew.
Right, yeah, but I don't know if... Yeah, I guess,
you know what, there is no law against dating a unicorn,
so I think to each their own, right?
Yeah, thank you for it.
Yeah, and I
support it. I support your love
and whatever you'd like to do.
Yeah, I'm a little hesitant to go really along with this,
because do you know what bestiality is?
It's illegal to make love to an animal.
Marshawn Lynch.
Hmm. That's beast mode.
He was a running back, and he's a running back.
Seahawks.
No, that's not the same thing.
Russell Wilson.
Great team, but that's not the same thing.
Bestiality is when you make love to an animal and that's against the law
so the unicorn is an animal
I don't know if that's legal
I don't know if they are animals
they could be another rise above
of the humans
like rise of the machines
ah ok they're above us is what you're
trying to say
I believe this
ok
look I'll support it blindly that's totally fine I want to say. Yeah, I believe so. Okay. Look, I'll support it blindly.
That's totally fine.
I want to say thank you for your concern, Andrew.
And may I ask you, I've been following you on, as they say, the Grams.
I am on Instagram, yeah.
And your username is Cheeto Santino.
And is it Cheeto? Is this because of the delicious cheesy snack. And is it Cheeto?
Is this because of the delicious cheesy snack?
Or is it another reason?
Why don't you take a guess?
I was, well, that was, sorry, my guess for you is that it is because of the delicious cheesy snack.
What if it's not?
What would you think it would mean if it was not the delicious cheesy snack?
It means your curtains and your drapes match the living room or something like that.
That's exactly right.
It's actually an affliction that I have since I was a child.
I started to grow pubic hair very young, and it was quite curly like the cheesy snack.
And unfortunately, the pubic hair didn't stop. I have it literally all
over my body, head to toe. I have to shave my arms and my legs. You can see it kind of growing back
now. I have to shave my arms and my legs and my back two to three times a day because the pubic
hair will just, it'll continue to grow. It starts in my bush and it will go everywhere.
Your bush?
My bush, my pubic, the hair above my penis.
Yeah, your pimmel.
Yeah, yeah, your schwanz.
My pimmel, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, schwanz.
And so that's where I kind of got the name because when I was a kid,
all the pubic hair engulfed my body was curly and crispy
and I looked like a delicious Cheeto snack.
So, yes, it is that, but also because of a birth defect.
I'm sorry about it.
I didn't realize about that.
Not a problem.
Okay.
When you are shaving yourself,
do you sing the song that's like,
my neck, my back, my poop and my crack,
as you go?
Just to remind where to shave.
Okay.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just so I can focus on where I'm shaving
and where I'm cleaning up and if I missed a spot, you know.
But I have a team of people that help me.
I have three assistants that help shave my entire body.
And they each have one region of your bodice.
They switch because it does get boring to do the same place.
So, you know, it's Monday and Wednesday switches with Tuesday, Thursday.
Of course, I give them the weekend off.
I'm not a slave driving. You're not a them the weekend off. I'm not a slave driving.
You're not a tyrant, yes.
I'm not a tyrant, so I do give them the weekend off.
But for the most part, yeah, we like to switch up zones.
We make games out of it.
I have a lot of freckles, so when they do clear out a little area,
they do connect the dots.
They will play games with the freckles.
They will draw on me.
It keeps them entertained while they're shaving. What is the most exciting thing they have drawn on your chest?
On my chest, one of the gentlemen that helps, and I don't want to say his name, Mark.
Sorry, it's not a gentle, it's just a gentle person. It's like, it's just a shaving attendant.
One of the gentle person, one of the gentle, one of the general person, one of the general people,
one of the general shavers,
a general shaver,
one time shaved the pubes off my chest and drew an exact,
I mean, with shadowing and everything,
of Ulysses S. Grant.
Do you know who that is?
One of the presidents of the United States?
Yeah, did he shave the tomb as well
down below by your nipples? Yeah, that was the president, one of the presidents of the United States? Yeah, did he shave the tomb as well, down below by your nipples?
Yeah, that was the joke,
is that my penis was Grant's tomb,
so he was rising from the dead.
From the dead, oh.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it was pretty clever.
It was very clever,
and that's probably the best experience I've ever had
with some of the shaving art that they're able to do.
Short, yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you have, do you have a headphone in a headphone? That's probably the best experience I've ever had with some of the shaving art that they're able to do. Short.
Yeah.
Did you have, do you had a headphone in a headphone?
That's pretty impressive.
Yeah, it was the inception of listening and it's starting to hurt my ear.
So I said, can you still hear me now currently?
I can hear you perfectly fine.
Oh, good.
This means I may have been screaming into this microphone for the last 40 minutes and I apologize to everyone.
Me too.
Yeah, me too.
That's fine.
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Flula, if you could go anywhere in the world to take a vacation,
where do you think you would end up going? If you had all the money, money was no option. You could go anywhere in the world to take a vacation where do you think you would end up going
i would get all the money money was no option you could go anywhere i would stay here in my in my
tiny office um yeah you wouldn't you don't want to go anywhere at all i'm i'm talking outside of
the virus if you just to take a nice vacation oh oh really i can leave and there's no virus
no i don't want you to leave i'm not advising you to leave i'm saying let's just imagine this to take a nice vacation. Oh, really? I can leave and there's no virus?
No, I don't want you to leave.
I'm not advising you to leave.
I'm saying, let's just imagine this is over.
Where is the first place you'd vacation to?
Where does Flula vacation?
Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen?
Yeah, it's a very small town. It is also the home of the Olympics many years ago.
It's in Germany.
It's in the Alps near the Zugspitze, the tallest, most tallest mountain years ago. It's in Germany. It's in the Alps near the Zugspitze,
the tallest, most tallest mountain in Germany.
It's very pretty.
It has many tourists now,
but if you go like now,
it would be empty, stempty.
It would just be you and two old men and a cow.
Well, that's because of the virus
or because this is the off-season for them?
Oh, both.
Oh, okay.
Oh, well, I mean, that's cool to have you say you'd go back to your home country.
That's kind of beautiful.
You must miss Germany, huh?
I miss it very deep with the foods.
I also miss the sadness.
There's a weather here.
We are, you and I both now are living in Los Angeles.
And the weather is always sunny and it makes me sad.
I don't like the sun all the time.
I need some cloud and
depression and some drizzle, maybe some sleet could maybe be nice. So too much sun makes you sad?
Absolute. No, it is. What about you? You are from Chicago.
I don't think too much sun makes me sad. I think, um,
no, I think not at all. I think sun is good for you.
I can't go in it all the time, of course, because I'm fair-skinned.
You are a honky.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, correct.
A very, very, very honky.
A very honky honky.
I'm probably one of the honkiest of the honks.
Of all of them.
You're quite honky as well.
You're quite white.
As well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Do you burn?
Do you burn or do you tan?
Sick burns.
All the time.
Sick burns.
If I'm outside, watch out.
Watch out.
Here comes the redness.
I'm a burnt sienna if I do it.
Oh.
Do you go to the beach ever?
I hate the beach.
Why?
It's the sun and the happiness and also the bugs.
There's bugs at the beach?
What bugs are at the beach?
Well, I itch.
If I sit on the sand, then everything is itchy.
Do you not have this?
When you sit down, everything is scratchy?
Yeah, but I don't think that's bugs.
I think that just sand is very coarse and very tough.
Yeah, you don't know.
Perhaps it's tiny bugs.
You're exactly right.
I actually don't know. Perhaps it's tiny bugs. You're exactly right. I actually don't know.
You might be very true.
Flulu, you might have influenced me to rethink almost everything that I feel about the beach.
And I don't want to go anymore because of that.
You're right.
Thank you.
Of course.
Do you put on sunscreen?
Yeah, but I'm only outside at night.
So I still apply sunscreen in the nighttime.
Yes.
So when you go out at night, you'll put on, like if you're going out to a bar to have a drink,
you'll still put on sunscreen?
45, yes.
In case the sun pokes back out?
It is a reflection.
Look at the moon.
How is the moon?
Do you think the moon
is like a flashlight?
No, it is the sun.
It is being reflected
of sunlight
and into your face.
So you're afraid
of the moon giving you UV rays?
Yeah.
Huh.
Again, I've never heard that, but I do feel that's quite valid.
It is how...
Yeah, I am preventing, you know, future sadness and future wrinkles.
You know, like the men that are driving the Ice Road Truckers and the Big Rickies?
Right.
They have one face that is...
It's like Two-Face from Batman Begins.
No, the Dark Knight, where it's like,
Vap, old man, Vap uh you know natalie portman i don't know what you're saying what's your favorite movie flula
oh die hard right now oh you love die hard huh oh so much yeah i want to write i've told many
peoples but i want to write gruber which is just a film about Hans Gruber before Die Hard.
And then I would love to play Hans Gruber.
That is my dream.
That is a great, that is an extremely good idea.
Have you written anything down yet?
Yeah.
I mean, in some of my dreams, my eye-opened dreams, I've had some good scenes.
That is awesome.
I would love to see that
when you get done writing that
please let me read it
will you play the limo driving man that drives
Hans Gruber to Nakatomi
yeah I think I will I think I would love to
what is your
most favorite film
Chito Santino
I think my favorite movie is the movie
Big with Tom Hanks. You know that movie?
Yeah, where he's in the circus
and he's like, I want to be more large. And then that
weird clown in the glass
is like, okay. And then it
spit a ticket.
Yeah, that's exactly right. And then he becomes a full-grown man.
And then he plays on the piano.
He plays the piano. That's right.
He plays the piano at FAO Schwartz.
Then he dies of AIDS. No, that's... Well plays the piano at FAO Schwartz and then then he dies of AIDS
he
no that's
well
Tom Hanks
is who you're talking about
he does
that's in a movie
called Philadelphia
it's a separate movie
same actor
but different movie
oh
yeah
okay
this one ends with him
becoming a boy again
he actually gets his wish
granted a second time
where he goes back
to becoming
to being a boy
oh
and then when
does he contract hiv is it they're in the toy it's a totally different movie that's in the movie
philadelphia sorry sorry yeah okay that's okay that's totally fine yeah he doesn't get hiv in
this at all uh this is just him as a as a as a boy who grows into a man and then he has to go back
into a ghost return oh and then the clothes are small.
No, big.
The clothes are very big, yeah, on his body.
That's a great scene.
I remember this.
You know who directed that?
Yep.
It was Zane, Billy Zane.
Penny Marshall.
Yeah, Marshall.
Do you remember her?
Penny Marshall?
Oh, yes.
She did some great movies.
She did those, like, let's say, like, what was it again?
Are you looking for it or do you know what it is?
No, just waiting for you to say it together with me so it shows we are.
Oh, that we're on the same page?
Yeah.
Yep.
She directed...
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
She directed Come On. We'll direct Come On, yeah.
She directed Come On 1 and 2.
1 and 2 with the cheerleaders.
That's correct.
Come On.
Come On 1, Come On 2.
Come On 2.
Yeah.
Come On 3 never happened because... No, it did not. Yeah, because of the death of... The two. Come on, two. Yeah. Come on, three never happened because...
No, it did not.
Yeah, because of the death of...
Matrix, the Matrix.
That's right, the Matrix.
Oh, the Matrix, Brandon Lee.
Brandon Lee?
That's exactly right.
Who is the son of Sarah Lee?
Lee Strasberg.
The woman who makes the cookies.
Oh, yes.
Yes.
With the cookies and the cakes.
That's exactly right. That's exactly right. And Lee Harveyrasberg. The woman who makes the cookies. Oh, yes. With the cookies and the cakes. That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
And Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald was also in the film.
You're extremely well-versed in American culture
for someone that wasn't born here.
Are you a citizen of the United States?
I've lost you.
No, I'm not.
I'm not one of those, but I would like it.
But also, it means I can maybe say more things about your land and not feel so guilty about it.
But I would also be confused if I was an American now.
It's just a weird time.
What would you say about the land that you feel like you couldn't say if you were a citizen?
Why is all of this happening?
How did the Clementine become the man who is the charge?
I'm confused.
Anyway, we don't have to talk about this.
No, we can.
The Clementine, I don't know what the Clementine is.
You're talking about the fruit, a Clementine?
Yeah.
Why is the Clementine in charge?
Yeah.
It's the American way, my friend you yeah yeah well i i would make you a
citizen if you were interested in getting help i could get you some citizenship if you wanted to
i have a friend that works there at the office at the citizenship office yeah oh i would yeah
i would like this maybe after we have completed this speaking.
Yeah. The podcast. Yeah. Yeah. It could be easy to do. You have to answer a few questions and
they're really simple stuff like, um, let's do it. Who was the first president? Who was the
first president of the United States? Washington. I got this so deep. Washington. Washington. Got
it. Um, no Washington, Washington. Yeah. Tan. He was obese. No, no, no. Uh, Washington. Washington. Ton, ton. Yeah, ton.
He was obese.
No, no, no.
Washington.
George Washington was his name.
Yeah, yeah.
Washington.
We say...
Okay.
Yeah.
Washington.
What is the House and what is the Senate?
The House is where people live.
And the Senate is who stabbed Julius really deep
when he had that salad.
That's true, too.
Okay, that's two for two.
Thank you.
How many states are in the United States?
So united.
Oh, it's like the wrapper that was signed by Eminem.
50.
50?
Oh, look at that.
You're pretty good.
Thank you.
Yes, very, very good.
If you're born in Puerto Rico,
are you an American citizen
or are you not?
You are a Puerto Rican.
I have learned from Spanish class.
Puerto Rican.
Are you taking Spanish?
I have done it, yes.
I am learning some things right now.
Hola, Andrew.
Tu eres muy roja ahora.
Yeah.
That's good.
Yes.
Yes.
Si.
What's your preferred food
in America since you
miss German food so much?
Do you like Mexican food?
I go in a different, yes.
So German foods here are not so good.
I don't always like them in Germany as well.
So my current is I like to have a Trader Joe's peanut butter filled pretzel bite
covered in chocolate.
And then I take almond butter that is crunchy and I make a dippy.
Like what's it called when you have the cheese and it's melty
and you dippy, dippy, donkey?
Fondue.
Yeah.
Fondue.
Fondue is a French word.
Do you know what it means?
It means dip it.
Dip it and eat it.
It means dippy, dippy, donkey, actually.
Dippy, dippy, donkey.
Yeah, yeah, dippy, dippy, donkey.
Dippy, dippy, donkey.
Dippy, dippy, donkey.
Very good.
Andrew, you are not living now in Sharktown,
so what do you miss so much that you must eat your food?
What do you like?
I miss deep dish pizza very, very much.
Giordano's?
Yes, and Lou Malnati's and Gino's East, which is out here now.
They have a Gino's East in Los Angeles.
But I think my favorite food that I didn't have as much of in Chicago was like really good homemade Mexican food.
You don't get, you get different kinds of Mexican food in Chicago, but not, it's very authentic here.
I like that a lot.
You like it in Los Angeles better with the food.
Way, way better.
This is the best Mexican food I've ever had is in LA.
I can tell you something.
I was living in Chicago.
I like your hot dogs.
They're not like the bratwurst, but I like those.
Right.
You like the all beef, right?
Oh, all beef.
And then also there's some pickles in it.
And then there's no ketchup.
What?
You're stupid.
There's a mustard boy.
No ketchup.
Do you use ketchup in Germany or no?
Yeah, we have it, but we like to dump a curry in it.
So it's curry ketchup, which is nice.
Curry ketchup. Okay. nice. Curry ketchup.
Okay.
Ooh.
You will.
Ooh.
Well, if I put curry ketchup on a hot dog, on a bratwurst in Germany, people are cool about that?
That's fine?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like this?
How do you eat it?
Is that how you eat it?
Oh, that was you was doing.
You was doing this.
I usually have two.
I just eat two hot dogs. You have two hot dogs at it? Oh, that's what you were doing. You were doing this. I usually have two. I just eat two hot dogs.
You have two hot dogs at once?
Oh, that makes sense.
Okay.
Alternate.
Oh, you don't want to be selfish.
You want both to get a little bit of...
Share, share, share.
Share.
Share.
That makes sense.
Yeah, in Chicago, the hot dogs have mustard on them.
They have a pickle, a pickle spear.
What else do they have?
Onion.
Sprinkly poppies.
Sprinkly poppies.
Poppy seeds. Yeah. have a pickle a pickle spear what else do they have onion poppies sprinkly poppies poppy seeds yeah and they have a relish or what is a green relish substitute right and look it's just relish
goop and they also sometimes put on jardiniere you know what jardiniere is no is it a french
gardener was it yeah that's exactly right a little French gardener feeds you the hot dog.
If you're wealthy enough, you get Jardiner.
I've never had a Jardiner.
No, I mean, it's a very private, elite group of people that are able to have Jardiner with their hot dog.
Yeah, that reminds me of Spectre, James Bond, Christoph Waltz.
In that room, it's just him and then the man from Guardians of Galaxy
and everyone is saying, we are very
special. I bet all of those guys
had Jordan ears.
There's no doubt they did.
The wealthiest of the wealthy are the people that get Jordan ears.
You'll get there. You're
somebody that's so talented. There's no doubt
you're on your way to the top.
Andrew, thank you very much to speak
of which. Congratulations on your Oh, Andrew, thank you very much to speak of which, congratulations on your
show, David. Thank you
very much. Just Dave and thank you.
That's very, very nice of you. Flula, I heard
that you have a movie coming out, correct?
Well, to say I have one,
I am one of the trolls.
That's
pretty cool, don't you think? Yeah.
What's the name of the troll that
you are? I am Dickory.
Dickory.
What is Dickory's main
characteristic? He is related
to Hickory.
And what about Doc?
Oh, from
Back to Future? I don't think
he's... Is Christopher Lloyd
alive?
I'm not sure, but I was referencing
the child rhyme, Hickory Dickory Dock.
What is this?
There's a
child's rhyme that goes Hickory Dickory Dock.
The mouse fell off the
clock. The clock struck one.
Do you know this? Do you know this?
No, I didn't know what you were rhyming with, Doc.
I just... I don't know if this is a podcast
that you can say. You can say whatever you want. What were you going to say? Well, I what you were rhyming with, Doc. I don't know if this is a podcast that you can say.
You can say whatever you want.
What were you going to say?
I thought you were going to say cock.
No, it's a children's rhyme.
Oh, yes, of course.
No problem.
But that is going to come back to haunt you.
No FOMO.
Because we are going to release this,
and I don't think the people that make trolls
are going to be excited about you saying the word cock.
Can we cut this?
Nope.
Okay.
Looks like you won't be getting your jardiniere after all, will you?
No.
Say goodbye to that.
Wave goodbye to that tiny gardener.
No, I would never try to do something like that to you, Flula.
You're too good of a guy.
That's okay. We're allowed to say whatever we want on this platform. That's the beauty of America,
huh? That's the beauty of this country. It's beauty. And you love America. I see you adorn
yourself in a lot of American apparel, from American apparel. Yes, from American. Well,
now it's alternative apparel, Andrew.
But I do enjoy, you can see, I don't know if you can see, I have some kittens.
Yes, I see that's a kitten. Two cats in a fanny pack.
In a fanny pack, yeah.
I like that a lot. Flula, where do you get your clothes from? Do you buy everything online? Where can you get that?
Yeah, yeah.
I go to a children's section,
but it's for the very large children.
So that's where I purchase things.
And the women's class section.
Ah.
Do you just go to the women and children's section and buy the biggest one they have?
Yeah.
Like that's a kid's shirt?
What size is that in children?
Oh, this is a three x's and one l
three x's and an l triple xl yeah yeah that's how that's how we say it triple xl triple xl
yeah exactly yeah almost like a rapper if you if lula you strike me as someone that uh could be
quite good at rapping because i think you i've seen you rap in the past do you still indulge
in rap or no?
Yes, I like to indulge in rap and sometimes I will say some rhyme and sometimes I will not.
How about you? Do you enjoy it? I love it, but I can't, I, I am not talented enough to do it,
but I do enjoy it very, very much. Who's your rap hero? Oh, I think you're being very,
you are being modest, Andrew. No, I'm not. My rap of heroes? I can't do it.
Yeah, who's your rap hero?
Who do you love as a rapper? I have many of those.
So I love, oh, I like Young MC is very good.
I also like, also everyone from Jurassic 5 is nice.
Yes.
They're nice.
Charlie Tuna, you know.
Oh, Charlie Tuna.
You know what I mean.
And then, oh, and then don't forget the man from C&C Music Factory.
Pause, take a breath, and go for yours on my command.
Now here's a dance floor.
You know it.
Yeah.
I love that.
Flula, I like that you like Jurassic 5.
I have a fun like Jurassic 5.
I have a fun story for you.
Charlie Tuna, who is from Chicago.
And tall.
Very tall.
That's why you like him.
He's very tall.
And his voice is very deep like this. Yes, yes.
Yeah.
They call me Tuna, as in fish, you see.
Right?
Oh, look at this.
Shelby Wish, you see.
That's what he does, right?
Oh, is that Charlie Tuna? I cannot tell you right now. Flula, it's me. It's just me. Oh, look at this. Shelby, where's CMC? That's what he does, right? Oh, is that Charlie Tuna?
I cannot tell you right now.
No, no.
Flula, it's me.
It's just me.
Oh, okay.
I was, okay.
Yeah.
Got it.
Yeah, it's just me.
Cool.
But Charlie Tuna, I met when I was in college, and I waited to the end of the show, and I
ran up to him, and I said, I'm from Chicago, and I know you guys aren't doing meet and
greets, and they were just clearing off stage.
And I said, will you please sign this shirt?
And I threw the shirt on stage, and he took the shirt backstage,
and I was like, damn.
He took the shirt, and he signed it with all the other members of Jurassic 5.
So I have all of the J5 members signed on a shirt at my house.
Well, okay, so I've been watching a lot of appraisal shows.
Well, okay, so I've been watching a lot of appraisal shows.
Was you in eyewitness forces, or could somebody like just an old janitor signed all the seasons and returned to you so you know?
I hope it was all of them, but yeah, I guess I didn't physically see them sign it.
So you're saying that you think it's not them.
Well, I would not want to appraise it until we can see like an official. I don't want to
urinate, sorry, on your
party, but just
so you don't are so much
excited in 10 years when you want to sell
this to pay for a shed or
something.
Yeah, no, it's just kind of
priceless for me. I don't want to sell it.
It's just like a thing that I, it's a
collectible. Ah, oh great. Well, then want to sell it. It's just like a thing that I... It's a collectible. Ah.
Oh, great.
Well, then I'm so happy.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Did you ever collect autographs as a kid, Flula?
Did you ever get people to sign stuff that you would hold on to?
Yeah.
I once received an autograph from Huey Lewis and the News.
No, sorry.
Just Huey Lewis.
The News was not there.
Ah.
That's on what?
What was the thing that Huey signed?
Oh, it was my hand.
Oh.
Did you wash it off?
Yeah. It's hygiene. Corona.
Right.
You should have had him sign something that wouldn't
dissipate like that. A piece of paper or
a shirt or something.
Oh.
Yeah, for the next time. if you ever get somebody's autograph
ever again. Just put it on, okay.
Okay. Yeah, put it on something that
doesn't go away or that you can kind of hold
on to, because then you can look back on it and remember, because now
I mean, do you know where on
your hand Huey signed? Yeah.
Do you see where these two lines come together?
Yeah.
Right there.
Huey and then the S was very small.
He's like, here you go.
And then he rolled up his window.
And then...
Where was this at?
Was this here in the United States or in Germany?
This was in Germany.
He played a show?
It was after a concert?
I think so, yeah.
Yeah. Well, hey, that's an autograph to remember. I mean, you remember where it was, so that's important, I guess.
Yeah, that's important.
Right there in your hand.
Yeah, so no one can say what. I can say, look, it was here.
Yeah, that's true. Flula, what do you do to keep yourself entertained during times of quarantine? What's keeping you happy and busy?
I try to take four numbers and using only arithmetic,
turn those four numbers into a nine.
And each number should only be a one-digit number from one to nine.
All right. Can you give me an example?
Sure. So like if you have two, three, let's go as simply.
Two, three, four, five.
Okay. Four plus five is nine. Great. Three minus two is one. Great. One times nine is nine.
And you do this all day long? All day long. Yeah.
Okay. Is that, that keeps you occupied for how many hours though?
12.
You'll do that for 12 hours?
I can, yeah.
Sometimes I make a snack and a duty, but yeah, I will do this for hours.
Okay, well, I respect that you love math that much, that you're just doing that.
That's pretty cool.
What do you do, Andrew, for your daytime?
I usually like to work out, or I like to work out or I like to write
or I like to play with my dog in the backyard.
I like to sharpen knives.
I have a huge set of knives that I like to just sharpen.
What?
Yeah, Japanese cutting knives that I like to sharpen
over and over and over.
For violence or for snacks,
why do you have these Trapani knives?
Both.
I mean, they're usually used for cutting food,
but you never know when you're going to need a sharp knife.
I mean, if somebody breaks into my house
and I don't have access to get my gun,
I do have an extensive set of knives in my kitchen
I could easily stab and kill someone with.
Scheiße. Okay.
Yeah. You should always have protection,
Flula. Do you have anything around your house to protect you?
Yeah, I mean, condoms.
I mean, in case somebody breaks
into the house, do you have something to protect you
with a weapon that you can defend yourself with?
Oh, a trombone.
No, like something...
I mean, would you...
As in you'd play it, or as in you'd hit them with it?
I think you start with playing,
and then if this doesn't work,
then you use it as an object of bluntness.
I guess that makes sense.
That seems a little oblong of a shape
to try to hit someone with.
It seemed...
You need to get yourself some kind of weapon.
Maybe a baseball bat, or...
I have my... Let me show you.
I have my trombone. One second.
Oh, okay.
All right, so while Flula's going to get his trombone
to demonstrate to us
why
he
would need it
in the event that
somebody breaks into his house
um
I want to say
thank you to him
even though he can't hear me
right now
for joining the podcast
alright buddy
uh
so
ready
let's see what you got
so someone just breaks
into your house now what do you do
boom give me all your money
so you start with that and then you are saying has someone reaction
right right somebody goes what the hell are you doing, man? Give me all your money. Put that down.
And maybe they could give a little chuckle.
But at this point, they're like, hey, I'm not messing around, pal.
Put that down and give me your money right now.
Give me the money out of your wallet now.
I have a slide.
Do you see how it goes?
It can...
Yeah.
I can release the slide so it flies. It's like a slide. Do you see how it goes? It can... I can release the slide so it flies.
It's like a weapon.
And then you can kill somebody with it.
They can die from the trombone.
Huh.
Okay, so I guess you're right.
That is a good weapon to have.
And so when you are having intruders,
you use your Japanese knives?
I haven't had to yet, but I do have the ability to cut, stab, serrate if I need to.
Yeah, okay.
So I sharpen all day.
I sharpen all day long, and it calms me down.
I listen to an Italian composer named Ludovico Naudi.
Oh, Santino.
No, that's me. No, that's me.
No, that's not why, but
yeah. Do you know that
Santino is an Italian last
name, or did you just guess? I made a large
guess of it. Well, have
you ever seen the movie The Godfather?
Yeah, I give them an offer that no one
is willing to refuse. I can make an offer
to you.
Yeah, that's close. It's I made them an offer they couldn't
refuse. Yeah, exactly.
Made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Yeah.
Now he fishes with my sleep.
Yeah, he sleeps with
the fishes, which means, yeah, he's dead.
Do you understand
what that means when they say
sleep with a fish? Do you know what that means?
No, I mean, I assumed it was something about
Aquaman or anyone that has a lot a large lung capacity mark spitz uh no so when you when when the mafia
would kill people they would they would uh put put their feet in concrete or something heavy
and sink them to the bottom of the ocean so i thought they liked it autopsy like oh he's amphibian
no no one there has not been a human, oh, he's amphibian.
No, there has not been a human yet that's amphibious that we know in our... Right now.
I mean, there might have been prior to us.
Sorry, Andrew, you said that you like very much The Hobbit?
No, sorry, you said The Godfather, you like that?
Yeah, I love The Godfather.
And Santino Corleone is one of the characters.
Oh, he's one of the Corleones.
That's right.
He gets killed in the tollbooth scene.
Remember that scene?
Oh, James Caan.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's me.
Oh, congratulations.
No, not James Caan.
Was it James Caan?
No, it's not James Caan.
Oh. Oh. That's okay. Hey, not James Caan. Was it James Caan? No, it's not James Caan. Oh.
Oh.
That's okay.
Hey, hey, hey, hey.
Yeah, yeah.
It's okay.
Okay.
Sorry.
Flula, I really do appreciate you coming
and chatting with me today during the quarantine time.
It does mean a lot to me because I am a big fan of you.
I think you're very funny.
I think you're very cool.
I hope that when you do come around to getting your citizenship,
you come and work with me on trying to figure out, you know,
the best way to pass the test because I would love to help you.
If you do want to be a member of this country, and if not, that's fine.
I don't care.
Okay.
But I appreciate it, and I want to do this one thing with you.
I usually end the episode with the guest
saying one word or one phrase
into the camera
and I'm going to walk away
and I want you to just say it directly into the camera
one word or one phrase
that's going to end the episode
so go ahead and do it
wait that's it
it just leaves
can you hear me, Andrew?
Or just...
Okay. Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey. You're that creature in the ginger beard.
Sturdy and ginger.
Like vampires, the ginger gene is a curse.
Gingers are beautiful.
You owe me $5 for the whiskey and $75 for the horse.
Gingers are hell no.
This whiskey is excellent.
Ginger. I like gingers.